Experts

Cristian Ducoing holds a degree in History from the University of Chile and a PhD in Economic History from the University of Barcelona (2012). He has worked as a researcher and lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University, the University of Valparaíso, Umeå University, and Lund University, where he continues to collaborate as an honorary researcher. His areas of expertise include natural resources and development, historical national accounts, and sustainability. In 2023, he received the “Andia

Bobby is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute. He has worked across most public policy areas in 25 years in policy research and evaluation, and has been seconded to the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. His work on Covid-19 has focused on how public misperceptions and expectations interact with attitudes and behaviour. This draws on his book, The Perils of Perception – why we’re wrong about nearly everything, focused on how people misperceive key social realities.

Alfred is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Kent. Alfred studies the theory and empirics of risk sharing. Alfred’s research focuses on the interactions between individual specific and wider macroeconomic risks. The primary applications of this research relate to the design of financial stability policy. The research also has wider implications for fiscal policy.

ESRC-funded Ph.D. student at the University of Strathclyde and Knowledge Exchange Assistant in the Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI). My research expertise is in Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling of trade and fiscal policies.

Jay Dwyer-Joyce is a PhD researcher at University College London, where their work focuses on trust in digital systems. Their research examines the Post Office Horizon case as a critical example of how large-scale technical systems can fail and the profound consequences of misplaced trust in technology. They are particularly interested in how digital systems can be designed to generate clear, verifiable evidence of their own reliability. Through this work, they aim to inform better system design,

Karen Dynan has been a Professor of the Practice in the Harvard University Economics Department and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics since 2017. Her previous roles include Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the US Department of the Treasury (2014-2017), vice president for Economic Studies at Brookings (2009-2013), and various positions at the Federal Reserve Board. Dynan researches macroeconomic policy, consumer behavior, and household finances. She has a